Genocide Prevention Program

Events

Events 

Upcoming Events 

To be announced  

Past Events 

September 24, 2024  
Innovative Ways to Resist: Myanmar  
Moderator: Dr. Douglas Irvin-Erickson, George Mason University  
Panelists:  
Rosalinn Zahau, Technical Lead, Women Legal Network  
Dr. Su Yin Htun, CDM Law professor 
Thinzar Shunlei Yi, Sisters to Sisters 

September 20, 2024  
Women’s Innovative and Economic Empowerment for Peace  
Moderator: Amb. Kelley Currie, Former U.S. Ambassador-At-Large for Global Women’s Issues and the U.S. Representative at the United Nations 
Panelists:  
Niemat Ahmade, President, Darfur Women Action Group (DWAG)  
Kay Soe, Advisor to Women Advocacy Coalition-Myanmar (WAC-M)  
Naheed Farid, Executive Director, Her Future Afghanistan 

March 27, 2023  
The Problem from Hell: Working to Prevent Mass Violence  
 
April 5, 2022  
Book Launch: Wicked Problems: The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice  
Co-sponsored by: 
The Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame 
The Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego 
The Peace and Conflict Studies Program at Conrad Grebel University College.  

September 20, 2021  
Book Talk: A. Dirk Moses, The Problems of Genocide: Permanent Security and the Language of Transgression  
Speakers: 
A. Dirk Moses, Frank Porter Graham Distinguished Professor in Global Human Rights History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor, Carter School 

June 17, 2021  
China, the Uighurs, and U.S. Foreign Policy  
Speakers: 
Richard Falk, Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton University 
Jeffrey Sachs, University Professor at Columbia University 
Alexander Hinton, UNESCO Chair on Genocide Prevention, Rutgers University  
Gao Qing, Director, Confucius Institute U.S. Center 
Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Assistant Professor, Carter School, George Mason University 
Facilitated by Richard Rubenstein 

April 29, 2021  
Book Talk: Alexander Hinton, It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US  
Sponsor: John Mitchell Jr. Program & the Raphaël Lemkin Program  
Speaker: Alexander Hinton, UNESCO Chair in Genocide Prevention 

March 24, 2021  
Book Talk: Ambassador Joyce E. Leader, From Hope to Horror: Diplomacy and the Making of the Rwanda Genocide 
Sponsor: Sponsored by the Center for Peacemaking Practice, Better Evidence Project & the Raphaël Lemkin Genocide Prevention Program  
Speaker: Ambassador Joyce Leader 

October 2, 2018  
Film Screening: 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us 

May 18, 2018  
Book Talk: Benjamin Madley, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe 

May 13-15, 2018  
Preventing Genocide and Building an Architecture for Peace in the United States 

February 1, 2017  
Book Launch: Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Raphaël Lemkin and the Concept of Genocide 

Oct. 27, 2016  
Book Talk: Joyce Apsel, Introducing Peace Museums  
 
Sep. 21, 2016  
UN International Day of Peace Commemoration  

April 7, 2016  
Film Screening and Discussion: Genocide in Rwanda  

April 4, 2016  
The Week to Remember our Humanity: Genocide Remembrance And Post-Conflict Trauma Healing  

May 19, 2015  
The Remembrance of Past Genocides: The Darfur Case  

May 19, 2015  
The Remembrance of Past Genocides: Education, Art, and Peace